Definitions
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- adverb In a way that
scrawls orscribbles .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Opening the book, he usually would discover strange pencilled pictures drawn scrawlingly over many of the pages.
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But one morning a letter came to me so scrawlingly addressed that I marvelled at the ability of the postal authorities in deciphering it.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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But one morning a letter came to me so scrawlingly addressed that I marvelled at the ability of the postal authorities in deciphering it.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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_ And, wonderingly, he read on the white page the words and the name written by Alice herself, scrawlingly but distinctly, the day before in the garden of Notre-Dame.
Through the Wall Cleveland Moffett 1894
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Inspector partner could chalk scrawlingly "O.K." upon his sundry pieces of baggage.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 Various 1885
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